{"book":"adl0973","page":121,"text":"far better than these people, tried his\nbest to bring home to them the real situation.\nHe told them plainly that he was not against\nthe ex-King, for whom he had every sympa-\nthy; but that he himself had neither the right\nnor the power to force the people to accept\nhim as their king. He refused to proceed\nto Kandahar where the ex-King was making\npreparations for an attack on Kabul, telling\nthem plainly that he would not be able\nto do anything there. We have already\nobserved (Chapter VI) how Ali Ahmad Jan,\nاندرز who led away by the exhortations of these\nmen went to Kandahar, was unable to do\nanything useful and had ultimately to pay\nwith his life.\n\nMarshal Nadir Khan was too wise to\nbe led astray by these people, who had\nabsolutely no knowledge of the Afghan\nmentality and who in their religious fervour\nwanted that the affairs of a foreign country\nshould follow the trend of their desires.\nبیهوده Their abortive efforts relative to the Turkish\nquestion and the Caliphate problem had\nshown at once their earnestness and their\nsympathy for their brethren-in-faith, and\ntheir ignorance of practical politics.\n\n84","chars":1118,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00121.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/121","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/121","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}